Does my computer feel pain when I decrement %eax?
Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
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#22Does my computer feel pain when I decrement %eax?
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#24I wonder if one could make a case for having to be more humane in insect farming? Current practices include steaming and crushing insects to death.
(The Economist | Grub’s up https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/07/06/...)
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#25Why wouldn't they feel pain? It's such a superior attitude to even consider that only humans could feel pain. It's also obvious that any complex organism feels pain... It the most basic evolutionary protection mechanism. Anything that didn't feel pain would soon be evolved out.
No one is saying only humans. Clearly dogs feel pain. The question is about a nervous system and response. Defining pain is difficult, just as defining life.
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#26grandma always said if your gonna kill them dont let them suffer.
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#27Does my computer feel pain when I decrement %eax?
The computer is a part of you, and you should feel all the pain for trying to access out of bound memory
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#28Why wouldn't they feel pain? It's such a superior attitude to even consider that only humans could feel pain. It's also obvious that any complex organism feels pain... It the most basic evolutionary protection mechanism. Anything that didn't feel pain would soon be evolved out.
they have known insects felt pain for a while, this was whether they felt pain after the injury 'healed'.
its semi relevant to me because I accidentally stepped on a bug (weevil) yesterday and felt bad about it. I hoped that it might not feel pain after the step, but that that hope was in vain.
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#30Why wouldn't they feel pain? It's such a superior attitude to even consider that only humans could feel pain. It's also obvious that any complex organism feels pain... It the most basic evolutionary protection mechanism. Anything that didn't feel pain would soon be evolved out.
Even the featured article puts pain in quotes and is like, “for simplicity, we’ll call it ‘pain’”
So actually it’s not obvious that animals perceive the world as we do. Maybe you can only generalise our experience to warm blooded vertebrates.